Giuseppe Piazzi

Standard Name: Piazzi, Giuseppe

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1 January 1801: The first asteroid ever sighted (and thought...

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1 January 1801

The first asteroid ever sighted (and thought at first to be a planet) was observed by an astronomer at Palermo, Giuseppe Piazzi , who named it Ceres.
Steel, Duncan. “2001: A space anniversary”. Guardian Weekly, 4–10 Jan. 2001, p. 22.
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